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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

When this A++ list actress and multiple Oscar winner arrived the US to appear in her first film outside of her home country, Hollywood execs were startled at how controlling and abusive her husband was. At a party to celebrate her new contract, her husband barked orders at her like a military general and his wife obediently followed his orders, robot-like. There was that time she arrived at the studio with her face black and blue from a night of beatings. The couple's daughter saw everything and was threatened with violence by her father if she told anyone. The actress found solace in the arms of several men including the married mogul who brought her to Hollywood, the A++ Oscar winning married actor/co-star who would soon ditch her for the love of his life and that future Oscar winning actor/co-star who was then almost A-list. It was no big surprise in Hollywood when she finally got the guts to leave her husband for that foreign born director, although some of the conservative power players in Tinseltown made it their mission to bring her down and at first they succeeded but the actress proved them wrong in a big way.

Ingrid Bergman, husband: Petter Lindstrom; daughter: Pia Lindstrom; conservative power players: Hedda Hopper, William Randolph Hearst and Louella Parsons; men she found solace in: David O. Selznick, Spencer Tracy [left her for Katharine Hepburn] and Gregory Peck; director: Roberto Rossellini; how she proved them wrong: won the Oscar for 'Anastasia ['56]

That never made sense to me. Spencer Tracy was married, he didn't need Katharine to bread for him. I don't know if she needed a beard or not, but you'd think the studios would find her someone a bit less scandalous than a married man. I prefer to believe they really were the love's of each other's lives.

Gossip columnists doing the bidding of industry power players. Bergman was a valuable commodity to the power players and her stock plummeted when she left her husband for Rossellini. They tried to prevent it regardless of the personal misery she was in and later distanced themselves from the star. Some things don't change and it's got nothing to do with politics.

I believe Tracy was known to swing both ways. Wasn't the wife a devout Catholic who would never consent to divorce? They probably had an arrangement. I always figured that he and Hepburn provided each other love and companionship more than passion.

Also, when I was a kid, Pia Lindstrom was a reporter on one of the local NY tv stations.

@Gayeld: I concur. I think Tracy and Hepburn were real, not an arrangement. Not to mention, Hepburn also had a fling with Howard Hughes. Was she also into women? Maybe? Probably? But you're right that it made absolutely no sense to use a married costar as her beard.

It's stuff like this that really highlights how rumors about Tracy, Hepburn and Grant should all be taken with a grain of salt. Maybe they're all true, but they're not the *whole* truth.

@NomNom83I'm of the opinion that her relationship with Hughes was just business. He was trying to establish himself as a Hollywood power-player and she needed a merkin. I truly believe that she was a lesbian.

@Paint ChipsSelznick deserves credit for recognising that Bergman's natural beauty would be a breath of fresh air for the female audience. He insisted that studio hair and makeup technicians change nothing about her appearance.

Bergman was of the Louise Brooks school of acting (i.e. she didn't *do* she *felt*). She's one of my favourites.If anyone's interested, the film she made with Gregory Peck is Hitchcock's 'Spellbound' (1945) and it's well worth watching, if only for her performance.

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